robisc Posted May 19, 2008 Share Posted May 19, 2008 This build was done because I could never get the new Shuttle KPC K45 working correctly with many issues, so I tried this one, the problems I ran into were with SATA HDDS and the SATA DVD drive, I couldn’t get the Kalyway 10.5.2 disc to boot using the SATA DVD drive so I used an IDE drive, with that drive once into the install I couldn’t get any SATA HDDs I tried to show up in the disk utility so there was essentially nowhere to load the OS, so I had to go with both IDE drives. Other than this issue, the install went well and was easy, after the install the Gigabit Ethernet didn’t work so I had to use the kexthelper app and load the new drivers I found linked from wildwobby’s site. This machine seems to be very stable and fast, I have yet to run Xbench but will do so and post the results here. There is also a RAM limitation issue of “only” 3.3 GB showing up in the BIOS and in the OS but this is a hardware limitation not an install issue. All in all a good system so far and like I mentioned everything works well except for Timemachine and it hangs when trying a restart but shutdown causes no issues. Complete specs below: Shuttle SD30G2 barebones Intel Core 2 Duo E6500 2.33 GHZ 4 GB A-Data RAM DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Lite-On IDE DVD Burner Seagate 250GB IDE HDD Onboard Intel GMA 950 graphics Logitech wireless mouse and keyboard combo Westinghouse 22 inch LCD Hauppauge WInTV HVR 950 Hybrid USB TV card running Elgato EyeTV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ngpeng Posted May 28, 2008 Share Posted May 28, 2008 I have a Shuttle SD30G2 hackintosh running well too! My hackintosh specs: Shuttle SD30G2 Intel Core Duo E4600 2.4GHz Kingston Value Ram 4GB (3.25GB recognized by motherboard) ASUS Nvidia 8500GT 256MB SILENT Western Digital 500GB SATA Pioneer DVD-115 Linksys WUSB54G v4 USB Wireless Adapter Dell E228WFP 22 inch LCD monitor Logitech Wireless Keyboard+Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzthqx Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 I am assuming you went with IDE for your K45 KPC as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniHack Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 Hi, Just a quick question. I too am about to build up Shuttle SD30G2 plus system. The box hasn't arrived yet, but I am curious about the booting from SATA drive issue you mentioned. Is this perhaps simply a BIOS quirk in that the IDE is assumed to be the optical drive connection? If that's the case, then maybe if you connected a SATA DVD drive to the 2nd SATA plug and set the BIOS to boot from the 2nd hard drive (or whatever it calls it in the BIOS screen), then you would be able to boot up fine from the Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD? Did you try that? I guess I'll find out the answer to this soon as I have got a SATA DVD rewriter I want to use and really do not want to have to buy an IDE one as well! FYI the rest of my parts are: MSI Nvidia Geforce 7300LE card, E7200 2.53GHz C2D processor, 2GB of RAM and a 160GB HD. I am curious about Linux, so am going to put together a dual-boot Linux/OSX system. I'll let you know how the build goes, but feel free to give any tips. I am hoping this will be trouble free(ish). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniHack Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 Okay, my build went fine. No problems in using my SATA drives and SATA optical recognized fine. Suspect it was just a BIOS setting that meant you were only enabling your IDE interface. Enhanced mode (PATA + SATA) worked fine for me. One annoyance is audio. I followed Wild Wobbly guide and whilst this appears to enable audio it doesn't in practice seemed to have done that. I will try disabling surround sound in the BIOS and see if that helps. Anyone else experienced that? EDIT: All fine on audio - I was using wrong output - socket....duh! Also just used Software Update without any issues to update from 10.5.3 to .4 along with lots of other updates (it just worked!). My graphics card (an MSI 7300 variant) is an unsupported one however, so I have a cheap Nvidia Geforce 7600GT in the mail from eBay, which by all accounts is trouble-free. Apart from that everything seems to work...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
driftingbunnies Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 Okay, my build went fine. No problems in using my SATA drives and SATA optical recognized fine. Suspect it was just a BIOS setting that meant you were only enabling your IDE interface. Enhanced mode (PATA + SATA) worked fine for me.One annoyance is audio. I followed Wild Wobbly guide and whilst this appears to enable audio it doesn't in practice seemed to have done that. I will try disabling surround sound in the BIOS and see if that helps. Anyone else experienced that? EDIT: All fine on audio - I was using wrong output - socket....duh! Also just used Software Update without any issues to update from 10.5.3 to .4 along with lots of other updates (it just worked!). My graphics card (an MSI 7300 variant) is an unsupported one however, so I have a cheap Nvidia Geforce 7600GT in the mail from eBay, which by all accounts is trouble-free. Apart from that everything seems to work...... I was wondering which BIO you have and the specs of your shuttle because i have the same one but OSX would not see my sata drive at all. I don't know why but it can see my IDE dvd drive and IDE hard drive. i really don't want to use an IDE hard drive since my sata is where xp is installed and it would make things a lot easier. But anyway, any information would help. maybe i need to switch to both sata hd and dvd. any suggesetions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniHack Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 Hi, My BIOS is SD30S1A2 check which BIOS you need for your processor here: http://global.shuttle.com/support_list03.jsp?PI=969 you can also find the manual for putting the right input into the BIOS screens from the manual download on this page: http://global.shuttle.com/download03.jsp?PI=969&PL=3 here it explains the different modes and how to enable the "enhanced" mode and also how to set the boot order correctly. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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